Revolving card-stand.



J. A. MANSON. REVOLVING' GARD STAND. APPLICATION IILE D FEB. 8, 1912..-

Patented Jan. 7, 1913.

` w/rNEssEf v 'a @auf JOHN A. MANSON, OF BRDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT.

REvoLvrNe CARDsTAND.

j v Specification of Letters Patent. l.Application filed February 8,1912. Serial No. 676,221.

Patented Jan. '7, 1913.

. To alt whom/@'15 may concern:

'. play cards may Be it known that I, JOHN A; MANsoN, a citizen of theUnited States, and a resident of Bridgeport, in the county of Fairfieldand State of Connecticut, have invented a new and Improved RevolvingCard-Stand, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

My invent-ion relates to a new andimproved revolving card stand, and anobject of my invention is to provide a stand more particularly adaptedto carry display .cards such as is ldescribed in full in my copendingapplication, Serial No. 663,07 9, filed November 29, 1911.

An object of my invention is to provide a revolving stand so constructedthat the disbe readily. dismounted and replaced.

. With the above and other objects in view as will more fullyhereinafter appear, the

presentl invention consists ,in certain novel details of constructionand arrangement of parts hereinafter described and particularly setforth in theappended claims. Reference is to be had to the accompanyingdrawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similarcharacters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures,and in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view showing a preferredembodiment of my invention; Fig. 2 is an enlarged vertical sectionalview taken through the device shown in Fig. 1, a cent-ral portionthereof being broken away,

and Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view taken on the line 3 3 of Fig.1 and looking in the `direction of the arrow; f

Described more in detail, my invention comprises a relatively broad flathollow base 4. Extending vertically through the base 4 and fastened tothe under side thereofby a nut 5. is a rod 6, the upper ortion above thebase being an enlarged. stee bearing spindle 7, brazed to the lower endof which is a bronze stop bushing 8, having a flanged rim 9, restingupon which fianged rim is a long tube 10. The end of the steel bearingspindle 7 has a conical top 11, which conical .top is rotatably mountedin a bronze bearing plug 12. By this construction the tube 10 isrotatably mounted upon the base 4t. To prevent the withdrawal of thespindle 7 from .the tube 10, the spindle 7 hasl a pe-.

ripheral groove 13 in alinement with the upper end of the bushing 8, inwhich groove is disposed a split stop ring 111. The stop ring issupported on the tube 10 and in assembling the parts the conical end ofthe spindle 7 readily passes through said ring, so as to bring thegroove and stop ring into register with each other.

y 4Rigidly positioned on the tube 10, a slight distance above the rim 9,is a lower plate 15, which lower plate has a series of apertures 16disposed adjacent the outer edge, which apertures are adapted to receivethe lower pins 17 of card plates 18. A similar plate 19 is disposedadjacent the top of the tube 10, which plate also has apertures 20adapted to receive the upper .pins 0I the card plates 18. These cardplates 1S are inserted on the stand by passing the upper pins on thecard plates into the apertures 20, and then inserting the lower pinsinto the apertures 16. The card holders are locked in position by meansof a dome plate 21, which plate is slidably mounted on the tube 10 abovethe plate 19. This-dome plate is hollow and its outer edge rests, when,in locking position, upon the outer edge of the plate 19, and eitherbears upon or is positioned a short distance above the end'of the upperpins of the card holder, so that the lower pins can not be displacedfrom the apertures lunless the dome plate is raised into unlockingposition, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2. The dome plate has asleeve 22 projecting therefrom and surrounding the tube 10, which sleeve22 has a diagonal bayonet slot 23, disposed in which slot is a pin 2,4projecting Having thus described my invention, I

claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. A card stand, comprising a tube, an apertured plate carried by saidtube adjacent its upper end, a hollow dome plate slidably mounted onsaid tube above said plate, the outer edges of said dome plate when 1nlocked position resting on the outer edge of said apertured plate, saiddome plate having a sleeve projecting upwardly 4therefrom andsurrounding said tube, said sleeve hav- Y ing a diagonal bayonet-slottherein, and a pin projecting from the tube and engaging a said slot, tolock the dome plate in position on said apertured plate.

2. A card holder comprising a tube, upper and lower plates carried bysaid tube adjacent its ends, each plate having a series of aperturesextending therethrough, a Card plate having pins projecting from theuppery and lower edges thereof and adapted to be inserted withinapertures in said plates, and

a hollow dome slidably mounted on said tube above said upper plate, saiddome nor- JOHN A. MANSON. Witnesses:

W. S. ORTON, J. P. DAVIS. i

presence of vtwo subscribing witnesses.

